It contained a controversial provision that will require theologians to obtain a mandate from their local bishop certifying that what they are teaching is fully within church doctrine.
Abetz reaffirmed Tony Abbott's promise that any recommendations the government decided to support would not be implemented before the Coalition obtained a mandate at the next election.
Only such a normalised situation, which allows for free political activity, can allow us to consult our people in order to obtain a mandate.
"The elected representatives of Donetsk and Luhansk regions obtained a mandate to hold negotiations with central Ukrainian authorities to solve problems … via a political dialogue," Russia's deputy foreign minister, Georgy Karasin, said.
Between now and 2015, then, you must obtain a mandate from the voters and your party to be able to compete in such circumstances.But how to obtain it?
Negotiate; decide; and then obtain a mandate for entry in a referendum, if that is what you recommend.That is the letter of Mr Major's policy on the single currency, and indeed of Tony Blair's, and it is surely the right one.
On Friday, The Independent carried a front-page interview with Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector in 2003, asserting that President Bush and Mr. Blair acted illegally by not obtaining a specific Security Council mandate to invade Iraq.
For the British-born, Eton-educated Mr Abhisit, who came to office by a parliamentary vote in 2008, it is an opportunity to finally obtain a popular mandate.
Sensing that the public was turning against his rule by decree, Bhutto ordered new elections in 1977 to obtain a popular mandate.
A 2012 Human Rights Watch report said: In a referendum held in May 2011, president Rafael Correa obtained a popular mandate for constitutional reforms that could significantly increase government powers to constrain media and influence the appointment and dismissal of judges.
